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On 2/22/2012 12:17 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:T613K@aol.com">T613K@aol.com</a> wrote:
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<div>[1] It is not necessarily the case that all the seven mitzvos
are things people instinctively know. Eiver min hachai? Even murder
-- people may instinctively know that it's wrong in general, but they
find it easy to rationalize exceptions in which it's fine: if a person
is suffering, or old, or handicapped, or useless; if the person is a
Jew and therefore not "really" a person; if the person is an infidel.
Etc. But in the case of sexual sins I think that you are right and
that people do instinctively feel a revulsion towards certain acts, a
revulsion that has to be "educated" out of them before they will commit
these acts. Every society has some kind of incest taboo, for example.
And probably homosexual acts are in this category of something that
people in every society instinctively feel is wrong -- if not morally
wrong, then at any rate unnatural.</div>
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Since this is Avodah, and not Areivim, perhaps you could offer a source
for this statement, which in my experience is categorically incorrect.<br>
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<div>[3] "Evolutionary advantage"? Perhaps you should rather have
said, "survival advantage." Evolution is an unproven hypothesis and
even if it did occur, it was Divinely guided. We have to say that the
natural attraction between men and women is something that was
implanted in us by our Creator so that the human race would continue.
(He also created people who are not destined to marry or have children,
for various reasons known to Him. File under, "why is there suffering
in the world?") But if you /are/ going to talk about evolutionary
advantage, you do have to answer this question: what possible
evolutionary or survival advantage could there be in certain people
being genetically homosexual? One would think that such a trait would
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Good point. Clearly it wasn't simple evolution. It must be part of
Hashem's plan.<br>
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Lisa<br>
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